Thank you. I'm taking the PhD out as of today.
Not a problem. Just out of curiosity, you have a very Slavic name and I was wondering whether you are now living in Russia or one of the surrounding ex-CCCP republics. It's always interesting to hear the perspective of someone who is either looking at his country from the inside or has an outside vantage point to observe us. Mad Ivan in Britain is famed and near beloved at this site and his posts are always very well read.